How Breastfeeding Transfers Immunity To Babies
Date: 28.10.2008
Brigham Young University microbiology majors Kathryn Distelhorst and Elizabeth Nielsen Low are co-authors alongside scientists from the Harvard and Stanford medical schools on a research paper that made an important discovery about how breastfeeding protects babies from infection.
The two years they each have spent in the lab of Eric Wilson, BYU assistant professor of microbiology and lead author on the paper, have paid off with a publication in a prestigious journal, the Journal of Immunology, before they have even graduated.
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